单选题
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Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.
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In all this, the point of view of the non-smokers has to be{{U}} (10) {{/U}}as well: "3 wish smoker would stop{{U}} (11) {{/U}}the air. I wish I could eat in a restaurant{{U}} (12) {{/U}}having to smell cigarettes smoke." It has been{{U}} (13) {{/U}}that, in a room where a large number of people are smoking, a non-smoker will breathe in the{{U}} (14) {{/U}}of two or three cigarettes during an evening.{{U}} (15) {{/U}}, non-smokers are now majority in many western countries. More and more people are giving up the habit, discouraged by high prices, influenced by{{U}} (16) {{/U}}advertising or just aware that smoking is no longer really a polite thing to do.
Faced with lower sales, the western tobacco companies have begun to look outside their own countries. They have begun advertising{{U}} (17) {{/U}}to persuade young people in developing countries that smoking American or British or French cigarette is a sophisticated western habit, which they should copy. As a result, more and more young people are spending{{U}} (18) {{/U}}money they have on a product which the west recognizes{{U}} (19) {{/U}}unhealthy and no longer wants. The high number of young smokers in India, in South America and in South East Asia will become some of tomorrow's{{U}} (20) {{/U}}.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 考查连词用法和上下文逻辑关系。破折号前面的句子说,许多国家不允许报纸和电视上出现烟草的广告;本句话说,这些广告通常给年轻人留下印象,可见,后面的句子是在解释原因,因此应该选择一个表示原因的连词,故选项D正确。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 考查词义辨析和上下文逻辑关系。前面的句子说,许多国家不允许报纸和电视上出现烟草的广告;本句话说,为了______广告,烟草公司开始赞助体育赛事,说明所填词应该表示“代替”之意,只有选项B是这个意思。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 考查词义辨析和上下文逻辑关系。根据下面一句话里提到的They give money to football,motor racing,tennis可知,这是一种赞助行为,同时所填词的宾语是“sports events”,填sponsor正好可以搭配。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 考查词义辨析。此题可以用排除法,所填的词修饰sports,故选项B、C不正确;所填的词与a number of搭配,故选项D也不正确。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 考查固定搭配。on condition that是一个固定的短语,意思是“条件是”。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 考查词义辨析。suggest意为“建议”;claim意为“声称,主张”;mention意为“提及”;declare意为“宣布”。所填的词的宾语是“the name of the cigarette”,故选项C正确。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 考查词义辨析与搭配。所填词的宾语是concern,可以与之搭配的只有cause一词。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 考查语法现象。所填的词要引导一个从句,同时在从句中充当宾语,故只有what正确。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 考查词语的固定搭配。与connect搭配使用的介词是with。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 考查词义辨析与搭配。所填词的宾语是“the point of view of the non-smokers”,可以与之搭配的只有consider,表示“考虑”。regard通常和as连用,构成regard…as…的句型。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 考查词义辨析。damage意为“损坏”,宾语通常为有形物;spoil意为“损害”,宾语通常是无形物;decay意为“腐败,衰败”;destroy意为“摧毁,彻底毁灭”。所填词的宾语是“the air'’,故选项B正确。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 考查词义辨析。所填的词与“having to smell cigarettes smoke”搭配修饰“restaurant”,故选项A、C均不正确;如果用rather than,则前面应该提到一种做法,故只有选项D正确。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 考查词义辨析和上下文逻辑关系。后面的句子讲,在一个许多人吸烟的屋子里,一个不吸烟的人一晚上所吸入的烟雾相当于两到三根烟散发的烟雾。很明显,这是一个计算结果,故选项B正确。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 考查词义辨析和上下文逻辑关系。equivalent意为“对等物”,表示与其他的东西等量或者等价等,由后面的“two or three cigarettes"可知,此词符合此处的语境。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 考查逻辑推理和上下文逻辑关系。上一句话提到要考虑不吸烟的人的感受,本句话说,______,不吸烟的人在西方国家现在占到了大多数,这表明本句话所讲的是一个事实,故选项B正确。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 考查词义辨析与搭配。此题很容易错选成non-smoking,因为这个词在全文中出现了多次,但是所填的词后面跟的是advertising一词,与之搭配的话要用anti-advertising,前缀anti-表示“反对”的意思。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 考查词义辨析。表示广告等政治或商业活动时,用campaign一词,故只能选择C。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 考查词义辨析和上下文逻辑关系。the little意为“仅有的一点儿”;a little意为“少许”;little具有否定含义,表示“很少”;some和little是不放在一起搭配出现的。本句话讲,越来越多的年轻人开始花费他们______的钱去购买西方人认为不健康且不再需要的产品,故选项A正确。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 考查词语的搭配。recognize常与as搭配使用,构成recognize…as…的固定句型。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 考查词义辨析。problem表示“问题,难题,麻烦”,指难以处理或应对的棘手的社会问题,符合这里的语境。